15Approval

#### 15 Approval (1) On application by or on behalf of a borrowing institution, the Minister may approve the institution, for a specified period not more than 60 months, by notice given to the institution and published on the Department’s website. Considerations in deciding whether to approve (2) In deciding whether to approve a borrowing institution, the Minister must consider: (a) the institution’s curatorial expertise and expertise in management of collections; and (b) the procedures used by the institution to identify the provenance of objects collected or exhibited by the institution; and (c) the procedures used by the institution to identify objects in a foreign country that could be the subject of temporary loan arrangements for exhibition under arrangements made by the institution; and (d) the procedures used by the institution or by its parent for negotiating temporary loan arrangements for objects that are normally in a foreign country (whether those arrangements are with lenders or exhibition facilitators); and (e) whether the institution often publicly exhibits in Australia objects that are normally in a foreign country; and (f) the matters (if any) prescribed by regulation for the purposes of this paragraph. This does not limit the matters the Minister may consider. Approval is not a legislative instrument (3) A notice under subsection (1) is not a legislative instrument.